They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar/The Last Laurel
- Episode aired Jan 20, 1971
- TV-PG
- 51m
After years of competition in business, lonely widower Randy Lane recalls better times when he and his wife used to visit a local bar. / Crippled Marius Davis uses astral projection to exact... Read allAfter years of competition in business, lonely widower Randy Lane recalls better times when he and his wife used to visit a local bar. / Crippled Marius Davis uses astral projection to exact revenge on his wife Susan and her lover.After years of competition in business, lonely widower Randy Lane recalls better times when he and his wife used to visit a local bar. / Crippled Marius Davis uses astral projection to exact revenge on his wife Susan and her lover.
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- Directors
- Daryl Duke(segment The Last Laurel)
- Don Taylor(segment They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar)
- Writers
- Rod Serling(segment They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar)
- Davis Grubb(segment The Last Laurel)
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- TriviaIn this episode, the main character Randy Lane travels to his childhood home '67 Bennet Ave' which is also Rod Serling's childhood home address.
- Quotes
The Policeman (segment "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar"): The party's over, Randy.
Sales Director Randy Lane (segment "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar"): Over? Where's everybody gone?
The Policeman (segment "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar"): They've gone to their respective rewards. Now, the party's been over for twenty-five years. Now c'mon, laddie, let's go home.
Sales Director Randy Lane (segment "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar"): No, no, no, Officer McDermott, this is where it is, right here.
The Policeman (segment "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar"): This is where what is, Randy?
Sales Director Randy Lane (segment "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar"): The best years of my life. It may be that you decide to call downtown for the psycho squad, but something... different... has been happening to me. I keep getting beckoned to by ghosts. Every now and then, it's 1945. How do you like them apples? And if you think that sounds nutty, get a load of this. I wish those ghosts would stick around, they're the best friends I got. I feel a lot more comfortable with them than I do with these live, warm, flesh and blood bodies I ride up and down elevators with.
The Policeman (segment "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar"): Randy, why don't you tell me all about it in the car?
Sales Director Randy Lane (segment "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar"): Because I want to tell you about it here! Now I rate something more than I got! Where does it say that every morning of a man's life he's got to Indian wrestle with every hot, young contender off the sidewalk who has an itch to go up one rung? McDermott, I've put in my time, you understand that? I've paid my dues! I shouldn't be hustled to death in the daytime and then die of loneliness every night! That's not the dream! That's not what it's about!
The Policeman (segment "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar"): Okay, Randy, c'mon. I'll drive you home.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 23rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1971)
The first "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar" has William Windom as a down on his luck man who seems to has lost control of his life following his wife's death, he has turned to alcoholism and is slowing being phased out of his job. He actually has some people who care for him and actually has a lot going for him, but, he's stuck in the past for what he believes to be happier times, when he discovers an old closed down bar were he and his wife used to go to is being tore down, its here that he learns how he must move on. This is probably the most popular episode of the series and is the one people usually remember. It's not my favorite, but, has a good message behind it and defiantly is one of Serling's shining moments as a writer, it was also nominated for an Emmy.
The second "The Last Laurel" has Jack Cassidy as a former athlete who after a car crash is left bed bound with paralyzed legs. He believes his wife is having multiple affairs, including with his doctor who has invited over on a rainy night to stay. Cassidy has managed the art of astral projection or in other words the power to leave his body. He plans to kill the two, but, things go horribly wrong. This one only clocks in at about 9 minutes, and its enjoyable, but, feels sadly like a time filler after following Tim Riley, originally this one aired before Tim Riley in its original airing which makes more since to me and if that would have carried on, I believe this one would have gotten better reception. It also doesn't help that the ending feels severely rushed.
Overall two good segments, excellent way end season one.
- b_kite
- Dec 10, 2018